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Vesktop

Flatpak Notes

Wayland support

Section titled “Wayland support”

See Tips & Tricks - Wayland Support for information on enabling Wayland support.

File Access

Section titled “File Access”

The Vesktop flatpak by default only has access to a limited set of files. This will break Drag & Drop and file pasting.

You can give Vesktop access to all your files with Flatseal or by running the following command:

Terminal window
flatpak override --filesystem=home dev.vencord.Vesktop

Discord Rich Presence (Game Activity)

Section titled “Discord Rich Presence (Game Activity)”

If you would like functional Rich Presence, do not use the Flatpak version.

Due to the sandboxed nature of Flatpak, Rich Presence is very limited and will only work for games that use Discord’s Game SDK to set your presence. This is only a very small number of games. Most games get detected by scanning running processes.

Run the following commands to enable support for games using Game SDK:

Terminal window
mkdir -p ~/.config/user-tmpfiles.d
echo 'L %t/discord-ipc-0 - - - - .flatpak/dev.vencord.Vesktop/xdg-run/discord-ipc-0' > ~/.config/user-tmpfiles.d/discord-rpc.conf
systemctl --user enable --now systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service


sudo flatpak override --filesystem=xdg-run/.flatpak/dev.vencord.Vesktop:create --filesystem=xdg-run/discord-ipc-0
flatpak --user override --filesystem=xdg-run/.flatpak/dev.vencord.Vesktop:create --filesystem=xdg-run/discord-ipc-0